Resultados para "The Sisters" en Ciencia ficción y fantasía

In A DIRGE FOR PRINCES Sophia, 17, battles for her life, trying to recover from the wound left by Lady D’Angelica. Will her sister Kate’s new powers be enough to bring her back? The ship sails with the sisters to the distant and exotic lands of their uncle, their last hope and only know connection to their parents. Yet the journey is treacherous, and even if they find it, the sisters don’t know if their reception will be warm or hostile. Kate, indentured to the witch, finds herself in an increasingly desperate situation—until she meets a sorceress who may hold the secret to her freedom. Sebastian returns to court, heartbroken, desperate to know if Sophie is alive. As his mother forces him to marry Lady D’Angelica, he knows the time has come to risk it all.

By the 2070s, most humans have interacted with androids in either a servile or sexual relationship. Dr. Bryan Galloway wants to tip the scales. So, he’s engineered two sisters who not only share a synthetic form of DNA, but a sentience and individualism no android has enjoyed before. Like human teens, the android sisters develop not only by nature but by nurture. Nyx, the red-eyed robot, finds life to be a journey you experience a step at a time. For Dayna, the violet-orbed android, life is a game to be won through emulation and manipulation.

Sophia, 17, and her younger sister Kate, 15, are desperate to leave their horrific orphanage. Orphans, unwanted and unloved, they nonetheless dream of coming of age elsewhere, of finding a better life, even if that means living on the streets of the brutal city of Ashton. Sophia and Kate, also best friends, have each other’s backs - and yet they want different things from life. They are both united, though, by their secret, paranormal power to read others' minds, their only saving grace in a world that seems bent to destroy them.

Cass, die für eine arrangierte Ehe bestimmt ist, träumt von Freiheit. Als eine schöne, kämpferische Frau durch das Dorf reitet und sie einlädt, ihr zu folgen, zögert Cass nicht lange. So wird sie in die geheime Schwesternschaft der Seidenritter eingeführt – Frauen, die das Kämpfen lernen, um ihre Gemeinschaft zu schützen und durch Männer entstandenes Unrecht wiedergutzumachen. Eine aufregende Welt voller tödlicher Fehden tut sich auf. Bald entdeckt Cass, dass sie eine besondere Macht besitzt.

The doorway between the magical Visempirum and the human world has been reopened. Paladin are once more living in the citadel where Zuhra and Inara grew up completely isolated by the magical hedge that trapped them there. Amid the brewing conflict between the Paladin and humans looms the threat of Barloc, who has stolen Inara's immense power and continues to elude the Paladin who are desperately searching for him.

Alice has lived in the forest on the fringes of Alder Vale ever since her parents abandoned her. Alone, exiled, and feared by all. All except Lily. Nature has always been Lily’s tonic, and she never feels more alive than when she’s amidst the trees. It was Alice who first called them the sisters of shadow, Lily, the sunshine to her moonlight, for neither can exist without the other. But something is stirring beyond the mountains. Whispers of spectres stalking the moors, women of unfathomable power luring children into a cult that has haunted local lore for a generation.

Having won the battle against Mordaunt’s men, the sisterhood is left dealing with grief and banishment. Cass has become a leader but her blossoming new powers threaten to overwhelm her. The fellowship will be tested to their limits as they fight off invading forces and come face to face with Arthur.​​

Welcome to your average, unorthodox family of witches, and a couple o’warlocks. Meet a biz savvy dude named Dakota Jackson, a member of this otherwise disenfranchised franchise, partially subsidized by a bountiful supply of medical blunts. It’s a steady gig, however there’s something else brewin’ in the cauldron.

Sixteen-year-old Faith has always known she was different, and her peers never let her forget it; she can communicate with the dead, she can start fires with a flick of her wrist, and she can transform into a sleek black panther. She's just never known why. Faith is relieved when her cold father and distant relatives raise no objections to her invitation to an elite school for the gifted. Which, coincidentally, happens to be where her parents met. In her search for answers, Faith meets the charismatic Lex, a senior with eyes like snow who looks at Faith with such intensity.

Twins Bianca and Leila could not be more different from each other. Being both Argentinian and Iranian in a small town has always been hard, but with Leila shunning her heritage and Bianca embracing it, the two walk very different paths. They run in different circles of friends and barely talk anymore. Leila’s a homebody who loves to craft and plans on marrying her high school sweetheart. Bianca’s more antiestablishment and plans to get out of Dodge as soon as humanly possible. But on their eighteenth birthday, the neighbor’s barn mysteriously burns down.

Twin sisters Iris and Malina thought they knew how to reverse the ancient curse that haunts their line, the spell that destines them to use their gleams—unique forms of beauty-manipulating magic—to entice and enchant none other than Death himself. But both sisters thought wrong. Instead of ending the wicked bargain with the power of her infinite bloom, Iris is taken to an uncanny realm between this world and the next. Only unlike all of Death’s companions before, Iris’s body goes on the one-way journey along with her soul, arriving in a kingdom never meant to sustain a living girl.

Sent away for the summer, the Ivyweather sisters were promised a family vacation by their wealthy, indifferent parents. Two at-odds opposites—Constance an anxious society sweetheart and Ivory an adventure-struck rebel—the sisters aren’t sure what to make of the dangerously decayed town of Quixx and its creeping fog that never seems to lift. When Ivory disappears after a spat with her sister, Constance tracks her to the mountain, where the Ivyweathers learn the town’s hushed talk of monsters is more than just a rumor.

Cadence and her sister possess the seeds of glory and ruin—or so their father always insisted. Cadence never understood what he meant until Airlie’s seed of power is activated, turning her into the most powerful mage in generations. Despite knowing it must mean her own dormant seed is much more malevolent, Cadence is swept away to the distant Mage’s Guild in her sister’s wake. She’s used to living in Airlie’s shadow, but she can’t see a place for herself in this new world. Nor can she believe in the apparent interest of the charming Zeke. No one has ever chosen her over her beautiful sister.

Valora Rigmore understands pressure. As the Chosen One (resident telekinetic, superstar, and model girlfriend), her life revolves around it. According to an ancient prophesy, Valora is destined to fight Erys, a terrifying individual with the power to control monsters. Valora is worshipped at school, in the press, and by her parents, but as the battle with Erys looms near, the cracks in her perfect façade are beginning to show.

In A Song for Orphans, Sophia, 17, journeys in search of her parents. Her quest takes her to foreign and strange lands - and to a shocking secret she could never imagine. Kate, 15, is summoned by the witch, as her time has come to repay the favor. But Kate is changing, coming of age, become ever more powerful - and what will become of Kate if she makes a deal with darkness? Sebastian, a romantic, follows his heart, throwing it all away to reject his family and find Sophia. But Lady D'Angelica is still bent on killing her - and may have other plans.

In A Court for Thieves, Sophia, 17, finds her world upside down as she is cast from the romantic world of aristocracy and back to the horrors of the orphanage. This time, the nuns seem intent on killing her. Yet that doesn’t pain her as much as her broken heart. Will Sebastian realize his mistake and come back for her? Her younger sister Kate, 15, embarks on her training with the witch, coming of age under her auspices, mastering the sword, gaining more power than she ever imagined possible - and determined to embark on a quest to save her sister.

Zuhra and Inara have grown up in the Citadel of the Paladins, an abandoned fortress where legendary, magical warriors once lived before disappearing from the world - including their Paladin father the night Inara was born. On that same night, a massive, magical hedge grew and imprisoned them within the citadel. Inara inherited their father’s Paladin power; her eyes glow blue and she is able to make plants grow at unbelievable rates, but she has been trapped in her own mind because of a "roar" that drowns everything else out.

A lost princess. A mysterious puppet master. And a race against time—before all is lost. Princess Rani longs for a chance to escape her gilded cage and prove herself. Ria is a street urchin, stealing just to keep herself alive. When these two lives collide, everything turns on its head...

After a spell of amnesia, Angeline, Chloe, and Evelyn meet on a Chicago subway train and learn that they’re long-lost sisters with magical powers. But this revelation comes with a catch: The empress of nightmares wants to tear apart their minds to uncover a secret spell buried in their subconscious. To make matters worse, the hero destined to defeat the empress is dead. Now instead of starting college, they’re whisked away to a world bursting with magic. Romantic Angeline is singing siren songs, bookish Evelyn is reading minds, and feisty Chloe is fighting foes.

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